Super Terrific Japanese Thing: Yotaro
What? Did you say you wanted another terrifying fake baby? You got it!
Yotaro here isn’t a traditional horrifying robot baby because 1) it’s stuck in a crib (although it has motorized nubs to simulate movement under it’s blanket [and goddamn if that’s not the weirdest fucking sentence I’ve ever written]) plus it’s more than 50% head. But that’s not even close to the only reason why Yotaro wll haunt your nightmares tonight, as it also:
? Can be cheered with a rattle
? He can be petted, which seems very wrong
? Can cry, actually producing tears and leaking fluid from his nose
? Gets paler in areas where pressed, which cannot possibly have any useful purpose, and if anything will teach people to press babies in the face
JAPAN, STOP MAKING FAKE BABIES. GODDAMMIT, I SWEAR YOU’RE TRYING TO DESTROY THE HUMAN RACE ON PURPOSE. (Via Japan Probe)
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.